My ancestors, they hail from . . . the redlands of Texas . . . and the marshes of Maine . . . the plantations of Georgia . . . and the courts of Spain . . . and from a hodgepodge of places . . . betwixt and between . . .

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

1808 :: Wedding day of Phineas Merrill and Lucy Thurston

On or about this date in our family history . . . somewhere in Maine . . . on the 21st (or 23rd) day of October . . . in the year 1808 . . . Miss Lucy Thurston (1791-1821) becomes the bride of Phineas Merrill (1787-1865) . . . their son, William Thurston Merrill, (1816-1898) is the paternal grandpa of Eva Mae (1874-1936) . . . who is the mother of Elizabeth Marilla Henry nee Smith (1912-1932) . . . who is the maternal grandma of the Keeper of this family history blog . . .